Hi Dear Folk,
Photo taken at Longwood Gardens.
I enjoy Blogging and the little circle rated "G" that I run around in on the Internet. All the creative and interesting folk that I view and share a world with. But as we all know there is a terrible dark side on the Internet. So who are The Cleaners? And it's not the little old ladies who come out in the early hours of the morning with their curlers in, hair tied up in a scarfs, saggy stockings and wielding mops with dirty buckets of water. I say that because I worked with a group of such ladies up in Paisley back in the seventies, when I needed a part time job and all I could get was cleaning a big old department store early in the morning, they did a commendable job, and I couldn't have worked with a more sharing kinder group of women. I think the image has changed since then.
The cleaners are people hired by big media platforms to troll through all the really bad things that are out there, I don't think I have to state what they are, it runs the gamut. These people located in the Philippians have to go through a quota of 25,000 images per day, either deleting them or ignoring them. These are the cleaners, cleaning up the Internet.
Obviously viewing such things day in and day out effects them. Also they are making huge decisions in just eight seconds of time. Ignore or delete. As one said it could effect a person's life or incite a war. A huge responsibility. Over a period of time it does take it's toll on them and many just have to give the job up.
When you think about it, even cleaning the Internet is given to a third world country to clean the mess up.
Is this all too deep for a Sunday evening?
Christine
Photo taken at Longwood Gardens.
I enjoy Blogging and the little circle rated "G" that I run around in on the Internet. All the creative and interesting folk that I view and share a world with. But as we all know there is a terrible dark side on the Internet. So who are The Cleaners? And it's not the little old ladies who come out in the early hours of the morning with their curlers in, hair tied up in a scarfs, saggy stockings and wielding mops with dirty buckets of water. I say that because I worked with a group of such ladies up in Paisley back in the seventies, when I needed a part time job and all I could get was cleaning a big old department store early in the morning, they did a commendable job, and I couldn't have worked with a more sharing kinder group of women. I think the image has changed since then.
The cleaners are people hired by big media platforms to troll through all the really bad things that are out there, I don't think I have to state what they are, it runs the gamut. These people located in the Philippians have to go through a quota of 25,000 images per day, either deleting them or ignoring them. These are the cleaners, cleaning up the Internet.
Obviously viewing such things day in and day out effects them. Also they are making huge decisions in just eight seconds of time. Ignore or delete. As one said it could effect a person's life or incite a war. A huge responsibility. Over a period of time it does take it's toll on them and many just have to give the job up.
When you think about it, even cleaning the Internet is given to a third world country to clean the mess up.
Is this all too deep for a Sunday evening?
Christine
Wow I never knew that. What a terrible job. In spite of that awful stuff gets through it seems.
ReplyDeleteI love the photo. So much beauty as well as ugly things.
Yes so much gets through, how could one control a world and impossible feat,
DeleteI had no idea. There's a lot bad about the internet but it seems like it should be personal responsibility. OK, no downright porn, but there's a big gap. As long as the littles can't access it, then it becomes a matter of choice, I think. It's a tough question.
ReplyDeleteIt is Jeanie, because we can control what we watch ourselves.
DeleteWhat a terrible job and so sad that it needs doing in the first place. It hadn't occurred to me about the dark side of the internet.
ReplyDeleteIt is terrible to think that something that can be so positive can be used for such badness.
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